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Required reading for Columbia's Lit Hum course.
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The Histories
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The Symposium
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The Iliad
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The Odyssey: A New Translation
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Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
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Medea and Other Plays
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History of the Peloponnesian War
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Lysistrata
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The Bible: Authorized King James Version with Apocrypha
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The Aeneid
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Metamorphoses
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Confessions
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Inferno
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The Complete Essays
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King Lear
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Don Quixote
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Faust
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Pride and Prejudice
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Crime and Punishment
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To the Lighthouse
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